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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-03-20. Paperback. Good.

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London: W. Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing-Office, Cleveland Row, 1804. Hardcover. Good. illustrations (by Thomas and John Bewick), xxvii, 68p. Old (contemporary(?) leather binding. 23cm. Backstrip chipped at base and dry and darkened. Joints splitting with covers still firmly attached. Later endpapers. Armorial bookplate ("Andrew Hasell Lance"). Mottled marbling(?) on page edges. Text sound and clean with minor waviness along edges.

Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing=Office, Cleveland-Row (for T. Cadell and W. Davies), London: 1804., 1804 pp. xxvi, 68 + 5 Full Page Wood Engraved Plates by William Bewick and delightful engraved scenic head and tail pieces. Paper manufactured by Mr. Whatman. Slight age staining in text and plates. Some signatures loose. 4to. 230mm. Disbound. Presented "through the medium of the Shakespeare Press, are particularly meant to combine the various beauties of Printing, Type-Founding, Engravings, and Paper-Making; as well with a view to ascertain the near approach to perfection which those arts have attained in this country." - W. Bulmer from the Advertisement which was copied from the Quarto Edition of 1795. POETRY BX 3 Language: eng. No Binding. Good.

London: W. Bulmer & Co - Shakespeare Printing Office. Good+. 1795 + 1796. First thus. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and will require extra postage.; Heavy, dk brown, scored calf boards; a little marked; light edge-wear; corners a little worn; binding very tight. Gilt decoration somewhat rubbed, gilt titling still quite bright. Marbled foredges, marbling a little faded. Bookplate on front pastedown; small cutting pasted to front endpaper, detailing this particular book - probably from a bookseler's catalogue. There are also some inked notes about the woodcuts, on one of the front endpapers, written by an earlier owner - the style of the handwriting suggests early 19th century. Very occasional light spotting, but in general the pp are quite clear. Five full-page woodcuts designed by John Bewick, and engraved by his brother John, in addition to other illustrations throughout the text. Two books bound together - I: The Traveller and The Deserted Village, by Goldsmith… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1804.. Large 8vo, xxvii, (i), 68 pp. 5 plates and 8 vignettes by Thomas and John Bewick, final blank of the preliminaries with some marks. Contemporary maroon quarter morocco, rather rubbed but sound.

London: T. Davies, 1770. Hardcover. Very Good. A 'New Edition' of the poetry of Parnell, a contemporary of Pope and Swift and, like them, a member of the Scriblerus Club. The first edition to include Oliver Goldsmith's 'Life of Dr. Parnell'. Joints starting. Prior owners have left their names on the first flyleaf (James Welon, 1942) and second flyleaf (Sarah Whitty, 1705), the latter evidence of early female ownership. 8mo. i-xxxv, i-iii,5-242, [2] pages, 2 plates by C. Grignion after Samuel Wale. ESC T130081. 7 x 4.25

1804. GOLDSMITH, Oliver, and PARNELL, Thomas. Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell. Later 3/4 red morocco, marbled endpapers, T.e.g. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing-Office, 1804. Hugo, Bewick Collector Supplement, 4160. With the bookplate of Woburn Abbey on front pastedown, Light scattered foxing, else very good.

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; W. Bulmer and Co, 1804. Leather. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Thomas Bewick. A selection of three poems by Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Parnell, illustrated beautifully throughout by Thomas Bewick. The second edition of this work.A selection of the poetry of Oliver Goldsmith and Thomas Parnell.Containing 'The Traveller', and 'The Deserted Village' by Oliver Goldsmith, and 'The Hermit' by Parnell.Illustrated with a vignette title page, five plates, and six in-text engravings.Illustrated by Thomas Bewick, a popular wood-engraver and natural historian.Bookplate of Edward John Kenney to the front pastedown. Kenney was a noted British Latinist, who served as the Kennedy Professor of Latin. He specialised in textual criticism, and was a leading expert on the works of Ovid and Lucretius. Kenney had a unique test when he was interviewing candidates for the college, having his cat Fufu in the room during the interview, and judging the candidates on how they treated his cat. The… Read More

London: W. Bulmer & Co. at the Shakespeare Printing Office, 1795. First Bewick edition. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. London: W. Bulmer & Co. at the Shakespeare Printing Office, 1795. First Bewick edition. 12 wood engravings, 5 full page and 8 vignette by T. Bewick. (xx), 76 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. 3/4 brown morocco over cloth. 5 raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt devices tooled in compartments, gilt spine title. Boards ruled in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.. Corners bumped. Corner split. Spine sunned; seams worn. Boards rubbed. Bookplate to front paste-down. Endpapers fox, with some foxing to title-page, but body of book quite clean. Overall quite good. Very good/No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item).

London, W. Bulmer and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Ress, and Orme; T. Cadell and W. Davies 1795; 1809; 1808.. 3 vols in 1 vol. xx+76; 134; xxviii+112pp. 4to. Binder's tasteful quarter leather marbled boards, with gilt lettering, corners lightly bumped. Marbled edges and endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Berwick in first volume. A very good copy.. Three volumes in one volume.

London: W. Bulmer And Co. (Shakespeare Printing Office), 1796. First editions. leather_bound. Full dark red morocco, marbled endpapers. Aeg. Near fine in fine matching cloth slipcase. xx, 76 & xv, 126 pages. Engraved titles with plates and vignettes by John and Thomas Bewick. Laid in are two proof plates from woodblocks by Bewick. The Thomas Whitehead bookplate inside front cover. Parnell volume in four parts each part with its own engraved design page. Parnell, an Anglo-Irish poet and clergyman who was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Somerville's fame rests chiefly on The Chase, a poem in 4 books, which has some passages of considerable descriptive power; to which Field Sports may be considered a supplement. It contains a vivid description of his favorite pastime and some lively pictures of animal life. Elegantly printed, wide text margins, raised bands, inner dentelles, spine panels lettered in gilt.

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare-Printing Office, 1795.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. xx, 76pp. Large-paper copy. Nineteenth-century red morocco, neatly repaired. With 5 wood-engraved plates and 8 vignettes by Thomas and John Bewick. Only the frontispiece was designed and executed by John Bewick; all of the others were done by Thomas Bewick after his own designs and those of J.Johnson. Bland, History of Book Illustration, p. 224; Hugo 78; Pease 61; Isaac 228; Ray 50: one of 100 outstanding books; Tattersfield JB50.

London:: W. Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office,, 1795. Includes: A Life of Doctor Goldsmith; The Traveller; The Deserted Billage; Life of Thomas Parnell, D.D.; and The Hermit. Engraved frontispiece and five full page engravings with other vignettes throughout the text. Beautifully bound in full polished tan calf ruled in gold, raised spine in six compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Contents show some light to occasional moderate foxing but otherwise a very clean and lovely copy in a fine binding.. First Edition Thus. Full Polished Calf Gilt. Very Good. Illus. by Thomas Bewick.. 4to..

London: W. Bulmer; Shakespeare Printing Office, 1795. First Edition. First Edition. Large quarto, 9 1/2 x 12 inches. The scarce Large Paper Copy with uncut fore and bottom edges (top edges gilt). Attractively bound by Riviere in full polished calf with triple fillet gilt ruling to covers, elaborately gilt spine and dentelles. Original blue green endsheets. Excellent woodcut illustrations by the Bewicks throughout. "Some of the largest wood engravings attempted by the by the Bewicks and by far the handsomest of their work." Ray, p.50. Font hinge cracked, tips sl. worn. Very good and tight.